I will be presenting "Building Scalable and Secure Line of Business Applications with SharePoint Server 2007" at the Tulsa TechFest on October 20th, 2007 at 2:30PM.  This is a great conference with tons of content on .NET, SQL, SilverLight, DotNetNuke, AJAX, and lots of other topics.  If you are in the area, make plans to […]

Join me at SharePoint Connections Las Vegas November 5th – 9th, 2007.  This year’s event is being held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, renowned for Shark Reef, House of Blues, and the best darn skirt steak you’ll find in this hemisphere (Rum Jungle).   There are a ton of great sessions that you absolutely cannot afford […]

The SharePoint User Group UK is holding its first ever User Group meeting dedicated to 3rd party SharePoint Vendors on October 18th in London. Technical only demonstrations ( no sales pitches ) will be presented by representatives of each company in 30 minute slots. We have some great companies presenting their new SharePoint 2007 software […]

Me! That’s right, yours truly is a shiny new SharePoint (WSS) MVP. How cool is that? As with any award, there are lots of people to thank. First and foremost, my thanks go to the one-and-only Bob Fox, who looks after me, tries to keep me out of trouble (hey, he’s not perfect) and without […]

In a follow on to his earlier post regarding SharePoint development, Andrew Connell has posted detailed instructions on how to create, configure and deploy ASPX pages using code-behind files in SharePoint 2007.  What I found most interesting in this article are the detailed solution package instructions and XML samples, both of which are sadly lacking […]

I have posted an updated version of my RSS Aggregator web part here.  The new version includes some stability enhancements, better error reporting, and the option to open links in a new window.  Unfortunately I don’t have time at the moment to implement some of the other changes people have asked for, like XSL Formatting and […]

Andrew Connell posted some thoughts regarding the use of SharePoint as an application platform in response to a post by Jeffrey Palermo (Full Disclosure – Headspring Systems, the firm Jeffrey works for, is one of our clients but I’ve never met nor spoken with him).  Jeffrey seems to be arguing against SharePoint because it cannot be […]

Sean Skinner has posted the slides from his presentation on Building Scalable and Secure Line of Business (LOB) Applications with SharePoint 2007 at the DFW SharePoint Community meeting on September 18th.  Get ’em while they’re hot!

Last Monday’s user group meeting in Reading was full of excellent information.  Patrick Tissegham had to distill a week’s worth of information into about an hour and a half but he did a fine job introducing the group to Office Business Applications (OBA).  Steve Lamb reminded us that Security Matters and made some very good points […]

I just wanted to throw out a big THANK YOU to Andrew Connell and Sean Skinner for delivering some great presentations to the DFW SharePoint Community group on Tuesday night.  The downside to participating in two user groups on opposite sides of the pond is that sometimes they conflict with each other and I have to choose […]